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ELIZABETH APPLETON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in blue cloth with a gilt and dark blue title panel on the spine, in a good dust jacket (previous owner's name, price-clipped, wear to ends of spine of dj,)
Book ID: 88867More details Price: $17.50 -
EARLY BRIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New Milford, CT and London: The Toby Press, (2008). First edition - The author's first novel "a captivating downhill ride through the alleys and clubs of LA's 1948 bebop scene, crafting a fascinating antihero who will do just about anything to keep his fingers on the ivories. At first, Jewish musician Louis Greenberg seems downright courageous, using his charm and piano skills to earn a place in the black jazz clubs of Watts; he's even pursuing an impossible love affair with a beautiful black regular, Beatrice. But soon it becomes apparent that his outsider status is deserved: his day job is swindling war widows out of their money, using the memories of their departed husbands as bait." (Publishers Weekly) 348 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88813More details Price: $18.00 -
A GAMBLING MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second thriller featuring Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran, fresh out of prison, who is on his way to Los Angeles for a fresh start. The first book in this series won the Nero Award. SIGNED on the title page. 436 pp. ISBN: 978-1538719671.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (light creases to a few corners)
Book ID: 87986More details Price: $35.00 -
CITY OF GHOSTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 3268 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87914More details Price: $31.50 -
LUCKY US.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning writer about two very different half-sisters -
"Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick - who journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iriss ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island." 234 pp. ISBN: 978-1400067244.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82862More details Price: $18.50 -
CLEA'S MOON.
Edition: First printing.
London: Orion, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of the author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 282 pp. ISBN: 0-752852892.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82431More details Price: $45.00 -
CLEA'S MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 308 pp. ISBN: 0-399150471.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82430More details Price: $30.00 -
NO CRYSTAL STAIR.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Toronto: Stoddart, (1998). SIGNED - The author's first novel, set in the proud, tight knit Black community of the Little Burgundy district of Quebec in the mid-1940s. It follows the life of Marion Willow, a Black widow, working two jobs as she attempts to raise her three daughters with dignity despite the limitations placed on them due to segregation. INSCRIBED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-773780024.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 82163More details Price: $15.00 -
NO MORE REUNIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a coming-of-age story set in the 1940s. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525168052.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71082More details Price: $17.50 -
NO MORE REUNIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a coming-of-age story set in the 1940s. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525168052.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 66991More details Price: $15.00 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.). SIGNED - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-668792.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66020More details Price: $18.50 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 66019More details Price: $18.50 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the month of publication. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63352More details Price: $31.50 -
CITY OF DRAGONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second book, a 'roman noir,' set in San Francisco in 1940 and featuring Miranda Corbie, private investigator, former nurse in the Spanish Civil War and ex-escort. Author's note. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0312-603601.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (inscription on front endpaper)
Book ID: 57269More details Price: $27.50
